NewFilmmakers NYC 2010

Phoebe, 17, a damaged high school girl with a dark secret, seduces her friend Kathy’s 12-year-old brother during an all-girl sleep-over. When the boy’s alcoholic mother returns unexpectedly and has a nervous breakdown, the moral constructs of the night are jeopardized.

This feature length documentary tells the story of a group of women who leave their crucial roles at home to vie for the title of Mother of the Year. From a struggling Midwestern farmer's wife with five children, to a wealthy East Coast mother with a secret she fears could disqualify her from the competition, the film delves into the intense lives of an ambitious group of mothers.The organization American Mothers Inc. began crowning a national "Mother of the Year" in 1935. Over the years, the group has maintained a very traditional determination of what it means to be a good mother and selects women who, for the most part, have decided to stay home with their children. Some of these modern mothers are deeply torn about their place in the world and how to measure up to the expectations of the judges. While the film plays to the absurdity of judging motherhood and the humorous episodes that ensue, it does not tread lightly on the real issues these women face and the pressures they feel to live up to an ideal of motherhood that cannot possibly exist. Motherhood is clearly undervalued in this culture, but is this the way to value it? The film will mix verite footage of the contest with archive, photographs and in-depth interviews to paint a picture picture the undervalued, over-stressed culture of motherhood in America today and a competition that reflects that perfectly.

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In 1998 eighteen year old Latron Parker made a documentary about the difficulties of growing up in Harlem. Eight years later he was shoot dead on the street.

A fan wrote on IMDB that HEY VINNIE is “a moving film …especially in terms of Vinnie's relationship with his parents…his father being gentle and indulging and his mother being angry and almost ambivalent towards him in response to his inveterate trouble making…meanwhile Vinnie describes feeling totally abandoned and misunderstood when he is sent to a Catholic Boys Home. The segment is introduced by Vinnie's friend…a police officer of all things who is one of the most interesting and authentic of the films many interesting characters. This is a wonderful film... perhaps something that every TO BE parent of a boy needs to see…. I still chuckle just when we try to describe the prank that Vinnie pulls as a kid in Catholic School on Yearbook photo day. I'll never look at a sweater the same way again.”